The returns are his to disclose. There's no (legal) reason to withhold them if he's truly under audit. He could always release the revised documents if necessary.
I loved reading this in 2008, was my first encounter with Atul Gawande and caused me to seek out other medical writers like Oliver Sacks. Thanks to @dove for reposting this incredible piece of writing.
We've adapted this at 18F. It's not a fork but it is based on and inspired by Thoughtbot's original project. Strong recommend. https://github.com/18f/laptop
I can't find a specific example off the top of my head but I'll say I've been managing a Jekyll site for a while now and whitespace errors in frontmatter and data files cause all kinds of problems. I'm not sure I could explain the details but it's a legit criticism of YAML. IMO part of the problem is that YAML looks very straightfowrard and is until it suddenly isn't. Whitespace is part of that problem.
Neat feature, should save a bunch of time. I wonder if they'll consider support for variables like {{ submitter }} or {{ owner }} that would fill in a mention to the user who filed the issue or the repo's owner.
The tour of duty metaphor isn't perfect, but I've always interpreted the "tour" part to refer to the term limit. Everyone in the DS and at 18F has a hard term limit. Can't speak for every municipal government, so don't know about your DMV, but most federal employees can keep their jobs beyond four years if they choose to.
I would bet that a DMV employee would appreciate a thank you, though.
Pretty sure it's illegal for federal entities to lobby Congress. The Anti-lobbying Act makes it pretty hard, anyway. But folks like you could lobby your reps and senators and attempt to get them to increase federal pay. This is a democracy, after all, and you are the constituent.
Echoing so many others here. Please don't kill yourself. I've felt this way. You will endure this. Call the suicide hotline, a friend, a loved one, or one of the many other resource people have already posted. There are people in your life, both here and IRL, that love and care for you and will help you.
The git integration could be a lot better but I like the green or amber hairlines next to the line number that give you a real-time git diff against HEAD. Cool feature. It is a bit slow, especially when opening files, I've noticed.
Online banks are great until your ATM card is compromised at which point it is promptly cancelled and a new one can be _shipped_ in "3-5 business days." When you're 3-5 business days overlaps with a holiday and a weekend, this can keep you without access to your bank account for almost 2 weeks (shipping doesn't mean it's in the mail yet). The only way around it is to pay $15 to expedite shipping, which (should) get it shipped in around 1-2 business days. So being a victim of something like a Target-level attack is particularly problematic. When I was at a 'bricks-and-mortar' bank, I could walk in and get a new card _that day._
So far that's been the only real drawback, for me, at Ally. That and their website is pretty bare-bones compared, especially, with Wells Fargo's. WF has some pretty great budgeting tools Ally just doesn't have. Mint fills in that blank for me. I just became a Simple customer and am honestly a bit wary of them being part of an international banking group.
Devs clearly thought integrating South into Core was worth shelling out for, they could have sat on their hands after the project hit it's modest 2500 pound goal but, they didn't.
Django, and all open source projects, benefit from the law of increasing returns. As more people contribute to it, with code, money, or simply by using it, the entire user base benefits. WordPress is a great example. I remember the days when WordPress was kind of wonky, but as it rose in usage and attracted more developers (and more of us started getting paid to contribute to the theme/plugin repos or Core), it quickly became stronger and oh so much more stable. There are tons of paid ("premium") plugins and themes out there now, and so many people paying for WP.com, but it's by no means a "pay for features" platform.
With Django, paying Andrew Godwin to dedicate some of his time to integrate South into Core is definitely the kind of thing all of us will benefit from whether we contributed or not, as would runserver. At £2500 (his original goal) it's not like we're paying his salary. Even with the $30,000 he raised, it's not like he's living high on the hog ℅ the django community. If someone wants to field a kickstarter for £2500 to improve runserver and people want it as badly as people wanted South integrated, it'd probably be successful. That kind of voluntary patronage hardly makes it a pay-for-features platform.